WeForest.org founder Bill Liao said that the charity’s first foray into crowdfunding on Global Giving has been an astonishing success, with the initial $5,000 target surpassed at the weekend – planting the seeds for more crowdfunding campaigns around specific projects. The crowdfunding campaign aims to help the village of Dympep, a village in north-eastern India, restore the original subtropical forest and its unique biodiversity. “Or if we planted one tree for every serving of Coca-Cola we would have solved climate change in 154 days. “The key here is knowing you are doing good and knowing what you are doing does no harm at all. “If the climate gets wrecked, we are all stuffed.”Liao cited the example of the Sahara Desert, which was once a rainforest.